Our School Curriculum
This is the place to find out all about
‘Our School Curriculum.’
Under ‘Curriculum’ in the menu across the top of this page, select the subject discipline that you would like to find out more about in the ‘drop-down’ menu. Here you will find subject long-term overviews, skills progression documents and ‘Subject in a Nutshell’ information.
Our Curriculum Rationale
A Little Bit More About Our Curriculum
The History Booklet in this section will give you a taste of History across the school.
Learn more about History in our CurriculumPhonics & Early Reading
At Haydock English Martyrs’ we use Read Write Inc phonics programme to teach our children to read, write and spell. Read Write Inc starts in Nursery beginning with distinguishing between environmental sounds and progressing to learning the Set 1 Speed Sounds through the year. The Read Write Inc. learning journey then continues into Reception and Key Stage 1. Children are assessed every half term and therefore children’s learning is pitched perfectly for every child.
We teach Set 1 sounds first.
Children need to know sounds – not letter names – to read words.
Set 2 & Set 3 Sounds
The children then move onto Set 2 sounds and once the children know one way of reading and writing every sound, they start to learn spellings for each sound they already know.
Finally they move onto Set 3 sounds and they learn different ways of spelling sounds that they already know. For example, they know ‘ay’ and now learn a-e and ai as other spellings for the same sound.
Book Bag Books
When the children reach Red Group and above, they begin to read a book every day in their phonics lesson. These are closely matched to the books that are sent home.
